[jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

[Peter Saint-Andre]

On 7/13/10 2:26 PM, Bill de hÓra wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 14:06 -0600, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>> On 7/13/10 2:04 PM, Jason Fritcher wrote:
>>>
>>> On Jul 12, 2010, at 11:43 AM, Bill de hÓra wrote:
>>>> It's not that XML is power hungry (streaming parses do ok cpu
>>>> wise), it's that XMPP/XML eats bandwidth and the chatiness (no pun
>>>> intended) of XMPP when people aren't saying anything will tend to
>>>> keep to impact the phone radio (and thus the battery). Anyone
>>>> tracing XMPP knows that there is a lot of presence stuff flying
>>>> about when people aren't saying anything and that part for mobile
>>>> at least, is pretty inefficient.
>>>>
>>>> A well defined mobile XMPP profile seems like a good idea, instead
>>>> of grab bagging various XEPs and trying them out. Once there was an
>>>> optimal mobile profile, whether or not XML makes sense would be
>>>> much clearer.
>>>
>>> Anyone know if Apple has done anything special with their XMPP
>>> implementation for their Push Notification system? They're apparently
>>> using XMPP as the messaging bus between the various iOS devices and
>>> the push servers.
>>
>> I think it's pretty much stock pubsub, using Idavoll.
> 
> APNS uses pubsub? Or is this a different service?

Yes, APNS. At least that is my understanding.

Peter

-- 
Peter Saint-Andre
https://stpeter.im/